Light snow will continue to fall in the Denver metro region this evening, but less than another half inch is expected, while southern Colorado braces for a difficult night of travel, highway authorities said.

Interstate 25 is closed indefinitely at Colorado City about 74 miles north of the New Mexico border, because of blizzard-like conditions.

The Colorado Department of Transportation will have plows working throughout southeastern Colorado, including Pueblo, Walsenburg, Lamar, Springfield, La Junta and Trinidad until the storm passes and roads are clear.

Snow, ice and wind are causing dangerous driving conditions, "reducing visibility to near zero in many areas," CDOT said at 5:30 p.m.

The interstate was closed earlier this afternoon at Raton Pass, N.M, south of the Colorado border. Hotels and other shelter in Trinidad soon filled up and CDOT encouraged travelers to consider finding a place to stay tonight in Pueblo, about 90 miles north of the border.

This evening motorists are being told by CDOT to consider staying in Colorado Springs, about 150 miles north of the state line.

The Pikes Peak region and the northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains are under a winter weather advisory until 5 a.m. Tuesday, with 3 to 9 inches forecast for Teller County, 3 to 6 inches in southern El Paso County and 1 to 4 inches in northern El Paso County.

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Pueblo is under a winter storm warning until 5 a.m. Tuesday for blowing snow from high winds. Between 6 and 10 inches is expected to fall on the area, with winds from the north at 15 to 25 mph and gusts approaching 35 and 40 mph.

A blizzard warning remains in effect until 9 a.m. Tuesday for parts of Las Animas, Kiowa, Bent, Prowers and Baca counties on the edges of a major storm moving across New Mexico and Oklahoma today.

Between 6 and 10 inches of snow will fall in Kiowa County with 10 to 20 inches elsewhere in the warning area, with possible amounts locally even higher, the National Weather Service states.

Icy roads today claimed the lives of two people — a prison guard and inmate — in a rollover crash between Genoa and Limon this morning on Interstate 70.

Light, scattered snow is expected to continue in the metro region and Front Range foothills into the evening. Today's daytime total in Denver will fall short of an inch, and the region should pick up no more than a half inch tonight, according to the National Weather Service.

Western Colorado, meanwhile, should expect to see snowfall — between 1 and 4 inches in the valleys and 4 to 10 inches at higher elevations — Wednesday afternoon into Thursday.

A "steady temperature" of 16 degrees is expected in Denver overnight, and city public works trucks have been deployed to address snow and ice on main roads, the department said this afternoon.

Tuesday, conditions improve dramatically in the city, with a high of 40 degrees under sunny skies.

The Weather Service expects snow Wednesday night, through Thursday evening, though it didn't predict specific amounts.

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